The project was founded in the early 90s, while skinner was still a teenager;.

Webskinner has obviously always been at his happiest when fully immersed in the youth culture of the streets.

Webthe way that the streets fitted that moment in british society ­propelled skinner to fame.

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Weboctober 13, 2023 6:00 am (updated 6:02 am) mike skinner put the streets out to pasture in 2011, feeling he’d taken the nattering rapper formula as far as it could go.

Webhaving taken almost a decade to complete, it’s clear that the streets’ sixth album, the darker the shadow the brighter the light, was both a passion project.

It reflected the lives of young working class people at the time with wit.

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